A long aging ruby-red wine, a complex mix of fragrances : Villa dei Misteri is the result of the ancient Pompeii viticulture’s rebirth.
A two-thousand-year story, back again since twenty years ago, when plaster casts of the ancient Roman cistern revealed the species cultivated, the cultivation conditions, the exact location of the vineyards. This is how the idea of replanting the vines where possible was born and it started near the amphitheatre. Over the years, the recovered surface for the viticulture has reached one and a half hectare, in fifteen plots located in Regiones I and II, where the new vines were bedded exactly where the casts indicated the existence of the roman ones. It started with two ancient vines, the Piedirosso and the Scascinoso, to which Aglianico was added, fermented for the first time with other grapes in 2007. The cultivation is done in the same way as in ancient times, with the help of poles for the first two vines and by pruning a tree of Greek tradition for Aglianico. Therefore, every year, in October, it is harvest time from Forium Boarium to the House of the Summer Triclinium, from the Garden of the Fugitives to the Caupona del Gladiatore, from Caupona di Eusino to the House of Ship Europa. In a limited quantity, but of high quality, the production in Pompeii is of around 1500 bottles per year of a valued TGI (Typical Geographical Indication) which is commercialised after several years of aging, contributing to finance new restorations. Thanks to the vineyards, Pompeii landscapes comes back to life as it was before that tragic day of 79 A.D.
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